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whether in afghanistan or iraq and that left it up to seven officers and that's not enough to do it. it fell between the cracks. normally, it would be state department building barriers, hiring security companies. the cia just doesn't do that. it keeps its own security. they did a heroic job trying to recover the ambassador. i think the real mistake, it was a misassessment. clearly, the ambassador knew, but that message didn't get up to the seven floor f the state department. >> was the ambassador relying on the cia for security? surely he knew who these people were and what they were doing and there would be a much bigger problem than the raw numbers would suggest, right? >> clearly, this is a good article in the "wall street journal." this was a cia base using state department cover and the ambassador would have assumed the cia was going to take care of it. but keep in mind, these guys there that buy up weapons, especially the surface to air missiles, these things get out across north africa, the middle east, they're going to shoot down airliners. they were doing the right job. the
whether in afghanistan or iraq and that left it up to seven officers and that's not enough to do it. it fell between the cracks. normally, it would be state department building barriers, hiring security companies. the cia just doesn't do that. it keeps its own security. they did a heroic job trying to recover the ambassador. i think the real mistake, it was a misassessment. clearly, the ambassador knew, but that message didn't get up to the seven floor f the state department. >> was the...
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or iraq. that's absurd to me. >> reporter: since 2006, more than 7,000 students have come to the cradle to the grave program. >> i don't want that to happen to me. i want to be able to live, be something my mom wants me to be. >> we want to really teach them the preciousness of life, that in an instant, your life can be changed forever. >> reporter: change they want for the better. sarah hoy, cnn, philadelphia. >>> so who is black in america? is it being determined by the color of your skin, by your family, by what society says, or is it determined by somebody completely different? my colleague who is better than anyone else in the business on this one is going to examine provocative questions about skin color, discrimination, and race in a new documentary "who is black in america?" and 's premiering sunday, december 9th at 8:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. what if there was a new way to deal with money that focused less on fees and more... on what matters? maybe your bank account is taking too m
or iraq. that's absurd to me. >> reporter: since 2006, more than 7,000 students have come to the cradle to the grave program. >> i don't want that to happen to me. i want to be able to live, be something my mom wants me to be. >> we want to really teach them the preciousness of life, that in an instant, your life can be changed forever. >> reporter: change they want for the better. sarah hoy, cnn, philadelphia. >>> so who is black in america? is it being...
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when i would go to afghanistan or iraq or wherever there were troops. i would say i want to meet with jr. enlisted and senior enlisted separately. i want no officers here. i want to go in and talk to them. they did not like that. and they come back and say they don't -- >> no that's how i want to do it. tell them to go away. after a while you can break it down and maybe you can actually learn something that is interesting that maybe you can help fix or whatever. so i think you have to fight for that especially as chairman. nothing we did -- all the service chiefs have a senior advisor. we instituted. that who was against it the most it was senator enlisted advisors. why? because there say protocol ranking and they figured one more person coming in over them would hurt their chances of getting military air lift support. it took i don't know how many breakfasts and lunches to finally convince them that the chairman needs feedback too but we're a nation at war i need to know what is going on so i have a senior enlisted advisor. we got it approved and then
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or iraq. that's absurd to me. >> reporter: since 2006 more than 7,000 students have come through the cradle to grave program. >> i don't want that to happen to me. i want to be able to live, be someone my mom would want me to be. >> we want to teach them the preciousness of life. that in an instant your life can be changed forever. >> reporter: change they want for the better. sar sarah hoye, cnn, philadelphia. >>> it's been five years since we did our original groundbreaking "black in america" series. this is our fifth anniversary. whoa take a look at colorism and identity with who is black in america. that's our newest documentary airing on december 9th at 8:00 pm and 11:00 pm eastern time here on cnn. >> fantastic. couldn't be more timely. >> really, really fascinating topic. >>> coming up next, fiscal cliff, congressional divide. could anything be funny in this environment? comedian david alan grier would say yes. what if there was a new way to deal with money that focused less on fees and
or iraq. that's absurd to me. >> reporter: since 2006 more than 7,000 students have come through the cradle to grave program. >> i don't want that to happen to me. i want to be able to live, be someone my mom would want me to be. >> we want to teach them the preciousness of life. that in an instant your life can be changed forever. >> reporter: change they want for the better. sar sarah hoye, cnn, philadelphia. >>> it's been five years since we did our original...
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or afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental health injuries from combat service even as america's wars wind down the suicide rate among troops has surged to a thirty year high according to the pentagon this year's total may reach as many as one suicide per day it's not just what happens in war one of the deaths and injuries or happens or no you have these there are basically better is coming home you know to two broken communities and families with. moms and this in terms of. is it something that we want you know do we want a society where are important members of our communities in the coming coming home or withdraw. and that's the reality of war in the two thousand and twelve fiscal year payers funded a u.s. defense budget of five hundred forty four billion dollars it's estimated that some could provide two million military veterans with free medical care for thirty five years talking about national defense has been almost sacrosanct you know sort of like the defense department wants something to question that is to question. something that isn't questionable and that has meant
or afghanistan have been diagnosed with mental health injuries from combat service even as america's wars wind down the suicide rate among troops has surged to a thirty year high according to the pentagon this year's total may reach as many as one suicide per day it's not just what happens in war one of the deaths and injuries or happens or no you have these there are basically better is coming home you know to two broken communities and families with. moms and this in terms of. is it something...
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. >>> four female soldiers who served tours in iraq or afghanistan filed a federal lawsuit yesterday trying to force the pentagon to end a ban on women serving in combat jobs. the suit says service women have often found themselves in combat without receiving the same rewards or opportunities for promotion. >>> a federal judge is ordering big tobacco companies to run ads saying they deliberately deceived the american public about the health effects of smoking. appeals are expected. >>> and prince william and his wife kate who became the duke and duchess of cambridge on their wedding day last year made their first official visit to cambridge this morning. the couple are meeting with students from cambridge university. they will also visit a homeless charity and hospital. >>> here's how wall street will kick off the day. the dow fell 89 points yesterday. the s&p was down seven. the nasdaq lost nine. overseas markets were also down. in tokyo, the nikkei dropped 114 points while in hong kong the hang seng fell 135. >>> so a lack of progress on fiscal cliff talks stalled stocks yesterday
. >>> four female soldiers who served tours in iraq or afghanistan filed a federal lawsuit yesterday trying to force the pentagon to end a ban on women serving in combat jobs. the suit says service women have often found themselves in combat without receiving the same rewards or opportunities for promotion. >>> a federal judge is ordering big tobacco companies to run ads saying they deliberately deceived the american public about the health effects of smoking. appeals are...
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or iraq. that's absurd to me. >> reporter: since 2006, more than 7,000 students have come through the cradle to grave program. >> i don't want that to happen to me. i want to be something. >> we want to teach them the preciousness of life. that in an instant your life can be changed forever. >> reporter: change they want for the better. sarah hoye, cnn, philadelphia. >> sarah, thank you. >>> who's black in america? is being black determined by the color of your skin, your family? by what society says or something else? soledad o'brien examining questions in the new documentary "who is black in america" december 9th at 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. eastern only on cnn. >>> new austerity measures for greece lead to a familiar faceoff in the streets of athens. take a look. protesters as many as 70,000 showing up against police here demonstrating against budget cuts they say they can't take after years of belt tightening here. the public rage is evidence here and didn't stop lawmakers from adopting the new
or iraq. that's absurd to me. >> reporter: since 2006, more than 7,000 students have come through the cradle to grave program. >> i don't want that to happen to me. i want to be something. >> we want to teach them the preciousness of life. that in an instant your life can be changed forever. >> reporter: change they want for the better. sarah hoye, cnn, philadelphia. >> sarah, thank you. >>> who's black in america? is being black determined by the color of...
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way or had loved ones fighting but at least you had a couple hundred thousand people that were very intimately concerned now with their own wars you have even less than that and i think it's part of the thinking of the people in the administration in the pentagon that it's an easier way to continue wars knowing that there's a public that sick and tired of ten years now of warfare unfortunately we just heard from the pakistani foreign minister who said that number one reason for anti-american sentiment in pakistan drone. that's right and people should be aware of that because they think oh no americans are getting killed because there's no pilot in the cockpit and they say very few civilian casualties although there's a lot more than they're admitting but what people don't realize is how many millions of people hate us because of these drones and how counterproductive they're i mean it's terrorism on a daily basis for these communities in two thousand former dea wrote an op ed where you said the following i'm just going to read it really quickly you said maybe it's time for the peopl
way or had loved ones fighting but at least you had a couple hundred thousand people that were very intimately concerned now with their own wars you have even less than that and i think it's part of the thinking of the people in the administration in the pentagon that it's an easier way to continue wars knowing that there's a public that sick and tired of ten years now of warfare unfortunately we just heard from the pakistani foreign minister who said that number one reason for anti-american...
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iraq -- afghanistan or iraq with these problems. i think the sooner we get this job done the better their going to be. >> i caught most of your testimony because i came in just as you were starting and i just wanted to ask, i didn't hear you mention the g.i. bill and i'm wondering are there things we should look at to improve? i know we made one improvement and we're getting a lot of use on the g.i. bill. >> the g.i. bill is in good shape right now. the only thing i think the american legion is concerned about is we need to keep watching and see how things are going incase we need to improve it. there is always room for improvement in the g.i. bill but right now we have no major issues with the g.i. bill. >> thank you mr. chairman. senator boozman. >> thank you mr. chairman. commander, you can have great benefits but if you can't access them, it's a real problem. and i know you have been working hard for our rural veterans to ensure the accessibility is . there we've been working and actually passed a bill in committee that would re
iraq -- afghanistan or iraq with these problems. i think the sooner we get this job done the better their going to be. >> i caught most of your testimony because i came in just as you were starting and i just wanted to ask, i didn't hear you mention the g.i. bill and i'm wondering are there things we should look at to improve? i know we made one improvement and we're getting a lot of use on the g.i. bill. >> the g.i. bill is in good shape right now. the only thing i think the...
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or afghanistan, or remote destination, or somewhere around the world, a u.s. base in an allied country or right here in the united states, they all gave more than lip service to their country. they gave part of their lives, and some gave so much more, so much more. we honor them today because we stepped forward when their nation called. we also remind our fellow citizens that taking care of veterans, keeping the promises made to them, is a cost of defending our nation. veterans is kept faith with our nation, our nation must ensure that it keeps faith with its veterans. perhaps you saw on the news a couple weeks ago a story about a world war ii japanese american veteran, mr. frank tanabi. even though he was placed in enoccurment cap during the war he volunteered to serve in the army and in an interview he gave a number of years ago, he said, i wanted to do my part to prove i wasn't an enemy alien, that none of user with, that we were true americans and that if we ever got the chance, we could do our best to serve our country. and we did. end of quote. the story
or afghanistan, or remote destination, or somewhere around the world, a u.s. base in an allied country or right here in the united states, they all gave more than lip service to their country. they gave part of their lives, and some gave so much more, so much more. we honor them today because we stepped forward when their nation called. we also remind our fellow citizens that taking care of veterans, keeping the promises made to them, is a cost of defending our nation. veterans is kept faith...
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if we leave afghanistan like we did iraq it will fall apart. he had a lot of problems to deal with iraq. not leaving any american forces in iraq and 10,000 or 12,000 would have done it has let the country deteriorate. iran has more influence than iraq now than ever. they are overflying iraq to reinforce syria. it breaks my heart we were so close to winning in iraq and obama administration dropped the ball. if they talked about leaving afghanistan rather than getting it right that will harm us for decades. when it comes to iran, why should the iranians believe that the obama administration is serious about stopping their nuclear program when all we talk about is leaving the region? if you are going to allow a side to kill 32,000 of their own citizens and do nothing about it because you have a hands off approach to syria, what kind of signal is that to iran. >> greta: afghanistan, as you look at afghanistan where is that country headed? >> when you make a list, like we are doing here, you can see in anyone would want to be a president. its proble
if we leave afghanistan like we did iraq it will fall apart. he had a lot of problems to deal with iraq. not leaving any american forces in iraq and 10,000 or 12,000 would have done it has let the country deteriorate. iran has more influence than iraq now than ever. they are overflying iraq to reinforce syria. it breaks my heart we were so close to winning in iraq and obama administration dropped the ball. if they talked about leaving afghanistan rather than getting it right that will harm us...
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not a kosovo or afghanistan or the iraq model where we have thousands of content and hundreds of thousands of people on the ground to be able to sort of pushed the democratization and the ssr forward. what is the post conflict ssor what can we do in the conflict to set the stage posed conflict to the will to get on the ground with her or not it is a footprint or heavier footprint some consideration of that made them for egypt and speak of, you know, if you are looking at the eastern european model was best as you can take in best practices, how do you -- which of course may not be the case -- how do you modify that with the fact that there are thousands or hundreds of europeans or americans on the ground that sort of help drive this forward, what is the possibility of success without that very present motivation to do so? thank you. >> this is an interesting question. thank you very much. they just sit there and the [inaudible] know, i was thinking about the mentioning of south africa as a model. i was doing south african affairs at the end of the transition and this experience with the ru
not a kosovo or afghanistan or the iraq model where we have thousands of content and hundreds of thousands of people on the ground to be able to sort of pushed the democratization and the ssr forward. what is the post conflict ssor what can we do in the conflict to set the stage posed conflict to the will to get on the ground with her or not it is a footprint or heavier footprint some consideration of that made them for egypt and speak of, you know, if you are looking at the eastern european...
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every time a woman or any service member sets foot into iraq or afghanistan, they are serving in a combat zone. >> the plaintiffs say the current rules hurt their military career prospects and limit their chances for promotion. a pentagon spokesman said they are committed to expanding roles for women in the military. look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, and how that feels. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms by keeping my airways open for 24 hours. plus, it reduces copd flare-ups. spiriva is the only once-daily inhaled copd maintenance treatment that does both. spiriva handihaler tiotropium bromide inhalation powder does not replace fast-acting inhalers for sudden symptoms. tell your doctor if you have kidney problems, glaucoma, trouble urinating, or an enlarged prostate. these may worsen with spiriva. discuss all medicines you take, even eye drops. stop taking spiriva and seek immediate medical help if your breathing suddenly worsens, your throat or tongue swells, you get hives, vision changes or eye pain,
every time a woman or any service member sets foot into iraq or afghanistan, they are serving in a combat zone. >> the plaintiffs say the current rules hurt their military career prospects and limit their chances for promotion. a pentagon spokesman said they are committed to expanding roles for women in the military. look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, and how that feels. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva helps control my copd symptoms...
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every time a woman or any service member sets foot in to iraq or afghanistan, they are serving in a combat zone. the combat exclusion policy does not recognize this reality. >> it prevents women from competing for many positions no matter how qualified or capable they are. >> defense department would not comment. the lawsuit indicates secretary panetta is committed to examining the expansion of roles for women in the military. so what does your gut tell you? should the ban be lifted? go to facebook.com/newsnation to cast that vote. >>> an update to yesterday's gut check. actor an gus. the jones apologizing for slamming the tv show that gives him $250,000 an episode. he called it filth saying he has the highest regard and respect for all of his co-workers. that's kind of not what he said in the tape. but okay. we ask you, should he be fired for his original comments? 74% of you say, bye-bye. 26% of you, no, he should keep his job. that's it for "news nation." thank you for joining us. "the cycle" is up next. monthly plan premium... and select generic hypertension drugs available for only a
every time a woman or any service member sets foot in to iraq or afghanistan, they are serving in a combat zone. the combat exclusion policy does not recognize this reality. >> it prevents women from competing for many positions no matter how qualified or capable they are. >> defense department would not comment. the lawsuit indicates secretary panetta is committed to examining the expansion of roles for women in the military. so what does your gut tell you? should the ban be...
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think about a situation where afghanistan or iraq does not go and the direction we are hoping for. we might find it much more difficult to disengage from middle east and south asia. those are issues that we're trying to put more emphasis on this important east asia relationship. i am not sure it is going to play out that way. mr. negative here, i did we have to look realistically at both the costs and possible developments in china and in international affairs. >> first of all, i agree with a lot of what the assistant secretary solomon said. and in the issues in china are driven by domestic issues. i think we need to be a little careful about the sort of solid ticism. there are things going on in china that are not about us. how do we treat china through these issues? how do in managing the relationship when they are clearly having convulsions internally? the issue of bo xilai, this is about a corrupt politician the way that moby dick is about a whale. i did we need to try to understand it a lot better than we do and certainly a lot better than what some of our media tries. things
think about a situation where afghanistan or iraq does not go and the direction we are hoping for. we might find it much more difficult to disengage from middle east and south asia. those are issues that we're trying to put more emphasis on this important east asia relationship. i am not sure it is going to play out that way. mr. negative here, i did we have to look realistically at both the costs and possible developments in china and in international affairs. >> first of all, i agree...
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or afghanistan. he was seen as a political threat to this white house and that is a reason i think there were many rumors the president, president obama, was happy to see him go to the c.i.a. a place he would have to be quiet and not engage the press and not be a political threat in this last campaign season. >>trace: jennifer if i can get you to weigh in on what it does to transition. you have worked with the pentagon and the central intelligence agency so you know the people in the departments. what does it mean for transitional purposes as we talked about, we are talking iran, benghazi, a number of issues, and we have troops in afghanistan. what are the issues now internally for the department? >>reporter: numerous issues. the arab spring situation in syria, iran, israel, the ending of a war in afghanistan, you have 68,000 troops still in harm's way in afghanistan, relations with nuclear pakistan, there are so many issues right now but general petraeus is one of many and as we all know in this bus
or afghanistan. he was seen as a political threat to this white house and that is a reason i think there were many rumors the president, president obama, was happy to see him go to the c.i.a. a place he would have to be quiet and not engage the press and not be a political threat in this last campaign season. >>trace: jennifer if i can get you to weigh in on what it does to transition. you have worked with the pentagon and the central intelligence agency so you know the people in the...
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when i would go to afghanistan or iraq or wherever there were troops. i would say i want to meet with jr. enlisted and senior enlisted separately. i want no officers here. i want to go in and talk to them. they did not like that. and they come back and say they don't -- >> no that's how i want to do it. tell them to go away. after a while you can break it down and maybe you can actually learn something that is interesting that maybe you can help fix or whatever. so i think you have to fight for that especially as chairman. nothing we did -- all the service chiefs have a senior advisor. we instituted. that who was against it the most it was senator enlisted advisors. why? because there say protocol ranking and they figured one more person coming in over them would hurt their chances of getting military air lift support. it took i don't know how many breakfasts and lunches to finally convince them that the chairman needs feedback too but we're a nation at war i need to know what is going on so i have a senior enlisted advisor. we got it approved and then
when i would go to afghanistan or iraq or wherever there were troops. i would say i want to meet with jr. enlisted and senior enlisted separately. i want no officers here. i want to go in and talk to them. they did not like that. and they come back and say they don't -- >> no that's how i want to do it. tell them to go away. after a while you can break it down and maybe you can actually learn something that is interesting that maybe you can help fix or whatever. so i think you have to...
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or in afghanistan something of a catastrophe it's premised on a fantasy that if the u.s. buys the uniforms gives them the guns provides in the training that somehow these will be reliable forces you can see in the case of afghanistan the governments are united the governments are partners but the afghan troops don't consider the americans to be their friends in fact they consider them to be cultural aliens who are occupying their country more than fifty coalition troops were killed this year alone by members of the afghan security forces word is out that the obama administration wants to leave around ten thousand troops in afghanistan to continue to train afghan forces and carry out special operations after twenty four teeth when according to the obama administration american forces are supposed to have completely left the country the afghan government has less than two years to agree or reject the idea the u.s. government may be looking at training armies abroad is a smart investment sort of like outsourcing makes sense in business it's cheaper than having u.s. troops on
or in afghanistan something of a catastrophe it's premised on a fantasy that if the u.s. buys the uniforms gives them the guns provides in the training that somehow these will be reliable forces you can see in the case of afghanistan the governments are united the governments are partners but the afghan troops don't consider the americans to be their friends in fact they consider them to be cultural aliens who are occupying their country more than fifty coalition troops were killed this year...
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if we leave afghanistan like we did iraq it will fall apart. he had a lot of problems to deal with iraq. not leaving any american forces in iraq and 10,000 or 12,000 would have done it has let the country deteriorate. iran has more influence than iraq now than ever. they are overflying iraq to reinforce syria. it breaks my heart we were so close to winning in iraq and obama administration dropped the ball. if they talked about leaving afghanistan rather than getting it right that will harm us for decades. when it comes to iran, why should the iranians believe that the obama administration is serious about stopping their nuclear program when all we talk about is leaving the region? if you are going to allow a side to kill 32,000 of their own citizens and do nothing about it because you have a hands off approach to syria, what kind of signal is that to iran. >> greta: afghanistan, as you look at afghanistan where is that country headed? >> when you make a list, like we are doing here, you can see in anyone would want to be a president. its proble
if we leave afghanistan like we did iraq it will fall apart. he had a lot of problems to deal with iraq. not leaving any american forces in iraq and 10,000 or 12,000 would have done it has let the country deteriorate. iran has more influence than iraq now than ever. they are overflying iraq to reinforce syria. it breaks my heart we were so close to winning in iraq and obama administration dropped the ball. if they talked about leaving afghanistan rather than getting it right that will harm us...
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and afghanistan, were kind of fans including on the left. once it became clear though late last week that he was going to say that the cia actually did a good job and different talking points you're going to see the press on him turn big time as they say he's the enemy, he's no longer part of obama administration lying about how we didn't know and it's ambiguous. >> jon: bucking the administration line on this is trouble for him, do you think? >> well, i think that the mean, the line on general petraeus or director petraeus changed dramatically this week. we did see kind of shock and not awe. shock and horror at the initial reports of why he was stepping down. but now, you're getting an examination by many in the media of the relationship between the media and general petraeus and his great ability to manipulate and curry favor with the media. michael hastings had an extremely interesting piece in buzz feed that pointed out that some of the people who wrote books about him. linda robinson actually went off to work for him in cent-com after t
and afghanistan, were kind of fans including on the left. once it became clear though late last week that he was going to say that the cia actually did a good job and different talking points you're going to see the press on him turn big time as they say he's the enemy, he's no longer part of obama administration lying about how we didn't know and it's ambiguous. >> jon: bucking the administration line on this is trouble for him, do you think? >> well, i think that the mean, the...
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boyfriends since 9/11 than americans were killed in 9/11, iraq, and afghanistan combined, and yet they have refused to extend the violence against women act. and so -- >> um -- >> yeah. >> i wanted to show you this poll from early teller this month of the most important issue for women in this election, and at the very top if you can see it there. it's abortion. 39% with jobs and health care far below. you've been traveling across the country. does that surprise you? i mean is that in line with what you're hearing from women as far as their concerns? >> yeah. no, it is in line. that's why i put controlling reproduction first because the human life amendment, which is supported by romney and ryan and the platform, would declare the fertilized egg to be a person, and that means that women's bodies throughout our child-bearing years would be under government control. but also remember that one in three american women has needed an abortion at some time in her life before she's 45. most of those women who have needed abortions are already mothers. so they absolutely understand that it's im
boyfriends since 9/11 than americans were killed in 9/11, iraq, and afghanistan combined, and yet they have refused to extend the violence against women act. and so -- >> um -- >> yeah. >> i wanted to show you this poll from early teller this month of the most important issue for women in this election, and at the very top if you can see it there. it's abortion. 39% with jobs and health care far below. you've been traveling across the country. does that surprise you? i mean is...